Library News

Trial for Canada's First People

The Library currently has a trial for Canada's First People. The trial for this database is available until November 30th.

Canada's First People is a Canadian aboriginal history portal. It provides a consistent body of materials on the Internet. The portal consists of a browsable and printable textbook, plus a large indexed repository of illustrations, texts, research materials, online quizzes, projects and lesson plans. Please take note that parts of the database are still under construction. This trial requires a login: username=coppul, password=trial123.

Early Canadian Periodicals added to Early Canadiana Online

In August 2006 there began an expansion of Early Canadiana Online to include Early Canadian Periodicals. This new collection does not yet seem to have its own link on the site, but it can currently be accessed through this query (which however also retrieves some government publications in serial form). So far, the following titles have been added, although the runs may not yet be complete:

• The Canada Farmer
• Canada Lancet
• Canadian Agriculturist
• The Christian Recorder
• The Church Standard
• The Dominion Medical Journal
• The Episcopon
• Kamloops Wawa
• The Manitoba and West Canada Lancet
• The Medical Chronicle; or, Montreal Monthly Journal of Medicine & Surgery
• The Medical Times
• The Northern Lancet (and Pharmacist)
• The Parish School Advocate and Family Instructor
• The Paul Pry
• Saskatchewan Medical Journal
• Western Recreation

For further details of the project, see Canadiana.org Bulletin, October 2006.

The Naked Truth: The Effect of Media on Body Image

The department of kinesiology and applied health present internationally recognized author, educator and documentarist Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.

(event poster)

According to Dr. Kilbourne's website:

Through her lectures, films, and articles, many of her original ideas and concepts have become widely known and used. These include the concepts of the tyranny of the beauty ideal, the dismemberment of women’s bodies in advertising, the connection of the sexualization of children with fear of powerful women, the twin themes of liberation and weight control exploited in tobacco advertising, the targeting of alcoholics by the alcohol industry, addiction as a love affair, censorship of the media on behalf of advertisers, and many others.

Thursday November, 2 at 7:30 PM - Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg
Book Signing and refreshments to follow at 9:00 PM -- $5.00 reccommended donation

Kilbourne's books and documentaries are a hot commodity at the University of Winnipeg Library - don't delay place your hold today.

Several books containing essays by Kilbourne are available at the University Library:
Psychology and consumer culture : the struggle for a good life in a materialistic world / edited by Tim Kasser and Allen D. Kanner
Feminist perspectives on eating disorders / edited by Patricia Fallon, Melanie A. Katzman, Susan C. Wooley.

Check out these other titles suggested by Dr. Kilbourne and available through the University Library:
Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth
Joan Jacob Brumberg's The body project : an intimate history of American girls
Susan Faludi' Backlash : the undeclared war against American women

Wikipedia

The Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting a live discussion of Wikipedia on Thursday, October 26, at 3 p.m., U.S. Eastern time:

Wikipedia: Beat It, Join It, or Ignore It?
http://chronicle.com/live/2006/10/halavais/chat.php3

There are also several articles (all written by Brock Read) about Wikipedia from the Chronicle issue dated October 27, 2006:

Free access:

Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? Volume 53, Issue 10, Page A31.
"As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether to ignore it, or start contributing."
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i10/10a03101.htm

Update: Off Campus Access to Databases

Some people are experiencing problems accessing our databases from off-campus. These are primarily people who use the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. If you are experiencing problems with accessing our login page for databases, you will need to change a setting in IE.

Follow these instructions to fix your settings:

1. In IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> Lan Settings
2. UNCHECK "Automatically detect settings"
3. UNCHECK "Use a proxy server for your LAN" if it is checked
4. Save the settings

This should allow you to access our databases using Internet Explorer.

New Books - Clean up your code with AJAX

Tutorials for Developers, Intermediate and Advanced Level

Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer

Synopsis:This book isn't wedded to any particular language, toolkit, browser, or architecture. Instead, it explores both the fundamental technologies and the emerging Ajax frameworks. It takes a honest, unbiased look at the good and the bad when implementing Ajax for Java, .Net, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, using libraries such as Scriptaculous, Prototype, Dojo, SAJAX/NAJAX, and ASP.NET - from bookjacket

Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites

Synopsis:Ajax Hacks gives you the tools you need to build the next generation of web-based applications and shows you how to assemble them in any number of different ways. Whether you're wondering what Ajax does or looking for new ways to apply it, Ajax Hacks will keep you coding for a long time to come. - from bookjacket

TWO NEW TITLES DEBUT IN PROJECT MUSE

Have you used Project Muse? This database contains fulltext of over 113 journals covering everything from African to women's studies or history to music.

Project Muse has just added two new titles to its collection:

Italian Culture from Michigan State University Press

&

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies from the University of Toronto Press.

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New Books - October is Women's History Month

Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize Synopsis: Judith Stiehm's clear, crisp narrative carries us into the company of twelve remarkable women recognized for their extraordinary contributions to international peace and social justice. Though different in many ways, the Nobel Peace women have shared a gift for recognizing what needed to be done and pursuing it with dogged determination. Stiehm shows us that their 'heroism' is within reach of us all. This book is both a celebration and an inspiration.- from bookjacket

Rethinking Canada : the promise of women's history
Synopsis: The fourth edition of Rethinking Canada is representative of the most interesting work done in Canadian and women's history. Including sixteen new essays, this volume boasts the strongest English collection in terms of women and Quebec history and the history of First Nations Peoples. In addition, there are articles on Japanese picture brides, Mennonite refugee women and migrant workers, civilian women during the Second World War, women in northern Canada, and lesbian women in Chatelaine magazine. Recent additions to the text also address the significance of globalization for women's international politics. The editors have carefully balanced the considerations of region, class, and ethnicity, as well as, time period to achieve a collection that covers the broadest possible sweep of Canadian history.- from bookjacket

New Books - "Oh the weather outside is frightful . . . "

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

Synopsis:Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations. Offering an account of the physics of the tropical atmosphere, the author explains how such benign climates give rise to the most powerful storms in the world and tells us what modern science has learned about them. Interwoven with this scientific account are descriptions of some of the most important hurricanes in history and relevant works of art and literature.- from bookjacket

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Synopsis:"This book will be a milestone in the emerging discipline of climate change biology. No issue is more important for the global environment; the impressive line-up of experts here gives it definitive coverage." Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

New database

Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 100 software applications used by students and educators, both K-12 and post-secondary. The site offers more than 20,000 tutorial movies, with over 500 new tutorials being added every 45 days.